Description
Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire.
About the Author
Paul Dobraszczyk is a visiting lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. His research focuses on visual culture and the built environment from the nineteenth century onwards, and he is author of Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain (2014) and London's Sewers (2014), as well as co-editor of Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (2016) and Function and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century (2016).
Reviews
`The Dead City is an elegantly argued and lacerating insight into our contemporary collective "ruin lust". The book binds together stunning images and carefully crafted prose in an elegy to ruin aesthetics, moving adroitly between critical commentary to personal experience and propelling the reader into unexpected introspection.' Bradley L. Garrett, University of Sydney
Book Information
ISBN 9781784537166
Author Paul Dobraszczyk
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 25mm